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Anonymous wrote:What are your ages? Are you a lot older than your GF?

OP here. I am 35 and and she's 24.

Anonymous wrote:If I were the op: I would want to see the charges. If several thousand was airfare from our trips together I would pay it off as she couldn’t really afford those trips but we had the enjoyment together.

If her 8k is actually clothing and eating out and manicures and all sorts of splurges the forget it. She doesn’t have fiscal responsibility and probably never will.

Don’t live beyond your means. At 24k she should charge her groceries and necessities. Nothing else.

Pay her phone, insurance, etc each month and save.

That shows fiscal responsibility and makes for a solid partner.
And if she’s cute and fun in bed. Then as the BF you splurge like crazy on her.

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Op here. She paid for her airfare and I paid everything else. We do not live together. I always pay for everything when we go out to dinner. I do make significantly more money than her. My salary is 90k and she's probably at 24k.

Anonymous wrote:Last week my girlfriend asked me to help her pay off debt. We were on vacation and she said her debt is stressing her out. She's got $8,000 in credit card debt. She's in school and works part time as a TA. She asked if I could pay $200 towards her debt until next summer. On one hand I am happy she has been honest with me about her finances, but I wasn't comfortable doing this. I told her I would think about it. I really thought she was joking. Things have not been the same since we had this conversation. She's been very distant. We have been together for 3 years. We are supposed to go away to NY next weekend but she called off the trip.

Anonymous wrote:If I were the op: I would want to see the charges. If several thousand was airfare from our trips together I would pay it off as she couldn’t really afford those trips but we had the enjoyment together.

If her 8k is actually clothing and eating out and manicures and all sorts of splurges the forget it. She doesn’t have fiscal responsibility and probably never will.

Don’t live beyond your means. At 24k she should charge her groceries and necessities. Nothing else.

Pay her phone, insurance, etc each month and save.

That shows fiscal responsibility and makes for a solid partner.
And if she’s cute and fun in bed. Then as the BF you splurge like crazy on her.

Anonymous wrote:It's one thing to ask to borrow money. But asking for a monthly stipend is weird. That's getting into sugar baby territory.

Anonymous wrote:It's one thing to ask to borrow money. But asking for a monthly stipend is weird. That's getting into sugar baby territory.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't believe you didn't see it coming. She is a grad student with a generous 24k a year income. I remember grad school. I either took my solo carefully planned budget trips or the guy paid. There was no question that I would not blend into the lifestyle of the other person by spending my money. I would stay in a hostel and take a messenger service free airfare (if you even know what it means) when I wanted to see new destinations. You priced the relationship at 8k. Try to get the cheaper one next time.

Actually it's more like 2-3k. She wanted him to help with payments.

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Op here. I really thought she was the one. When she broke up with me she told me to find someone else to fu** because she's done. I really did not see this coming. We rarely fight.

OP, she did not break up with you because of money problems. She broke up with you because you have different expectations. She thought that after three years together, you two were in a partnership where the mutual good of the couple took precedence over the individual--or at leas you were working toward that. That her being in grad school and living on a stipend was a temporary situation that you were fine with putting up with because you were in it for the long term.

By laughing at her for her request for 200 dollars to help stave off her debt you demonstrated that you did not think she was the one and you were not in it for the long term. Nothing wrong with that--and if you are not interested in the long term, you should not be supporting her at all (or dating for three years). But if you did think she was the one and you saw this as potential for marriage, then it makes no sense that you would not freaking pay the 200$ (in lieu of a vacation, or dinner or whatever) because you would not be thinking in terms of her vs me but in terms of us. So that's why she broke up. She feels like she can't count on you now, after 3 years, why should she in the future?

Op here. She wanted me to pay $200 monthly until NEXT summer so she can make $750 in monthly payments until the 8k is paid off. Summer 2019 is when her interest free promotion expires. I gave her $200 for her birthday. We also went on vacation to celebrate her birthday.

Anonymous wrote:I don't believe you didn't see it coming. She is a grad student with a generous 24k a year income. I remember grad school. I either took my solo carefully planned budget trips or the guy paid. There was no question that I would not blend into the lifestyle of the other person by spending my money. I would stay in a hostel and take a messenger service free airfare (if you even know what it means) when I wanted to see new destinations. You priced the relationship at 8k. Try to get the cheaper one next time.